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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
NICOSIA — Ersin Tatar, the new leader of the Turkish-Cypriot self-declared republic on the occupied side of the island, told the United Kingdom’s visiting Foreign Minister Dominic Raab he won’t discuss reunification.
Tatar, a hardline nationalist who in October, 2020 narrowly ousted moderate Mustafa Akinci, said he will take his marching orders from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who helped him win the post and doesn’t want unity.
Tatar and Erdogan instead want the occupied side recognized as it has remained isolated from the rest of the world since an unlawful Turkish invasion in 1974, decades of diplomatic negotiations failing to bring it together again.
Their meeting came ahead of a so-called 5+1 sitdown that will bring together officials from Cyprus, the occupied side, the United Nations and the three guarantors of security for the divided island: Turkey, Greece and UK, its former Colonial ruler.
"As Raab stated, Britain also wants to carry out some work and initiatives for Turkish-Cypriots," he added, said Turkey’s state-run Anadolu News Agency after their meeting.
"Our position is in full compliance with Turkey. We advocate the cooperation of the two states which live side-by-side based on sovereign equality," he said. "We conveyed to Raab that we are in favor of reaching a result through negotiations in Cyprus,” that don’t include trying yet again for reunification plans.
The last round of talks collapsed in July, 2017 at the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana when Akinci and Erdogan said they would never remove a 35,000-strong standing army on the occupied side and wanted the further right of military intervention.
Turkey has also been unlawfully drilling for oil and gas in Cypriot waters but Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades will take part in the upcoming meeting after saying he wouldn’t as long as the energy hunt was still going on.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.